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In reply to the discussion: Republicans make new push to repeal Obamacare...this is really awful. [View all]Demsrule86
(71,526 posts)tactics in the works. They have the courts to enforce such provisions. The GOP can not come up with a bill that will pass the House and the Senate and don't want to...now let's say we took the house, the senate and the presidency in 20...well thousands would still die between now and 2020. And unless we won a super majority which has happened only once in 40 years or so...we still can't pass a health care bill. We had a shot at taking the GOP down using health care. Because we muddied the water and gave the GOP ammunition to attack us by putting forth a single payer bill that had no chance of passing for years, we lost that opportunity. If the ACA goes down, we will get nothing. We could have gotten a pubic option...and lowered the medicaid age, but not if we lose the ACA. Some simply were determined to advance a single payer bill and in my opinion this was a big mistake. Playing politics with people's lives is never a good idea.